This article is an attempt to reply to a number of theoretical and epistemological issues frequently addressed in contemporary evolutionary psychology. We adopt a critical approach to both the empiricist conceit so often underlying the discipline and its core premises around the relationship between mind and biological evolution. As an alternative we take a constructivist view from which we propose to broach that relationship through the so-called Baldwin effect. That phenomenon, widely known among evolutionary biologists today, enables us to elude simplistic approaches to the problem of the relationship between psychology and evolution. It also affords a perspective for re-focusing the issues on the activity of organisms and the classic inter-connections among phylogenesis, historiogenesis and ontogenesis. The study concludes with a warning about the limitations to explanation that should be assumed by any psychological postulate with universally comprehensive pretensions, an issue evocative of the inevitable and structural crisis in which psychology should agree to transpire.

本文试图回答当代进化心理学中经常涉及的一些理论和认识论问题。我们采用批判性的方法来处理经常成为该学科基础的经验主义自负及其围绕思想与生物进化之间关系的核心前提。作为替代方案，我们采用建构主义观点，我们建议通过所谓的鲍德温效应来提出这种关系。这种现象在今天的进化生物学家中广为人知，它使我们能够避开对心理学与进化之间关系问题的简单化方法。它还为重新关注生物活动以及系统发育、历史发生和个体发生之间的经典相互联系提供了一个视角。